My series of periods is being reduced to a single period!

periodperiodperiodperiodperiodperiod. that's 6 periods. i win.

I nominate Zanymuse for President of the United States, period!

Naw, I use the word But way too much to make a good President.

I'd like to lower your taxes But... I need a new Limo...

But... I would like to thank you for your support.
But... you could send me your campaign contributions but... I would probably spend them on periods or other punctuation and land myself in trouble.

We need your sense of humor and we need it now!

LOL even my sense of humor can be a liability if I am not careful BUT... thanks ;~}

Try this...... Post your message where it will make errors. Come back and edit. See if the errors show up in edit.....! I think not!! Z for P!!

This message was edited Oct 28, 2007 11:00 PM

Little buggers are back and I can't tell where to make my corrections!

Just found this thread. It's hilarious - I'm laughing my fool head off here! I noticed this tendency for multiple periods to disappear the other day and found my own solution to what I considered a frustrating problem.. .. .. .. .. I use two periods and a space, then repeat as needed. Still looks good and accomplishes what I want too :-)

Wuvie, you have me confused now. I meant the example you chose for a laugh (which, by the way, was hysterically funny) was nothing I have ever posted. Although my posts are dippier than that one, I wouldn't say I had an adolescent for any reason.

My kids are more than double that age (LOL)

*****edited to say that we are now on the same page, Wuvie! I wasn't referring this post (my post). I was referring to the joke about the lady saying she could correct her children's grammar that YOU posted as an example. The hyperlink is my post.

This message was edited Oct 29, 2007 8:46 AM

Feelin' much like the scarecrow...which direction is OZ?

"eyes"

LOL, Gessie, we'll both be confused together.

Hot baked popovers for all!
(Passing around the butter and honey.)

KM

What is a "popover"? By the way DW wanted me to ask if anyone else mixed their eggs w/their grits in the morning? I told her "some will and some will not know what a grits are".

I love grits Dyson. And if I fix them.. .. .. I want over easy fried eggs on the side so the yolk gets on them, so I guess you could say that's mixed. A couple of slices of toast on the side, slathered with butter as it comes out of the toaster.. .. .. and I'm one happy camper! }%^{)>

J>>A>>N>>E>>T

Janet, that will make Sue's day .. ... .. but what is a popover?

this is a funny thread. i bet my use of all lower case letters bugs ya'll, right? lol. are all of you teachers? good grief. i am not in the same league as any of you, for sure. however, i think that some of these postings sound like a continuation from some other thread. please tell me that that is the case because if it isn't as far as understanding.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. i ain't got none.

Well I had to google because folks call different things popovers. Here is the google image search that came up with popovers.
http://images.google.com/images?q=popover&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

I goggled it also Janet and certainly it isn't what I would call an Okie popover! LOL Is that what you're talking about WUVIE?

momajack thats ok (even in lower case) but what is a popover? -- is it like a turnover soaked in soda pop? or a soda pop stood on end ? and how do you have your grits?

I definitely use periods to convey "thinking out loud" pauses when I post, but I guess I must be in the habit of using only 3, because I didn't notice this change!

Since it apparently helps with site mechanics, it makes sense to me to reduce multiple punctuation marks... but I too wish they'd be reduced down to 3 rather than down to 1. If I end a sentence with 7 exclamation marks, I have to admit that the sense of what I'm expressing could probably come across just fine with only 3 exclamation points... but I'd rather not have it reduced to one. And having 5 periods reduced automatically to 1 rather than to 3 does explain some really choppy looking posts I've come across recently.

Dave? Is it possible to make 3 punctuation marks in a row the max and to reduce larger numbers down to 3?

LOL Gessie, you're gonna love this one. We'll get straight some time today,
but have a good time laughing until then. Ha, ha!

You said: I was referring to the joke about the lady saying she could correct
her children's grammar that YOU posted as an example.

Which joke?

You said "The hyperlink is my post." LOL. Yes, I know, I thought you said that
was not your post. That is why I was confused. We might better call this one
a day, ha, ha, ha!

LOL Mamajack. No, not teachers. I just preferred grammar and English
over history and mathematics. Don't ask to see my report card in those
classes. ;-)

Grits, oh, yes, love 'em, but I confess, I prefer instant grits. When I was
a waitress in Ruidoso, New Mexico, I did not have time for breakfast. A
large coffee cup with grits, a dab of sugar and milk makes for a liquid
quickie.

Popovers. Janet, yes, your link is right. :-) Our recipe comes from my
paternal grandmother; who used a genuine cast iron popover pan. I just
use a linking popover pan, but in all reality, any muffin pan will do fine,
you just have to adjust the temperature according to the material used
to manufacture the pan. Thinner metals, lower temperature.
Fabulous fresh with butter!

Brinda, what is an Okie popover? (Said she who is from New York.)

Puncuation and popovers. Now could there be a better bunch of people in the whole wide world? I think not!!!!!!!!!!! Put in 10 exclamation points just to see what happens.

Grits are necessary for any wintertime breakfast. Sweet, butter and salt and pepper, with eggs, without eggs, with biscuits, with toast, add a slice of tomato and a slice of strong cheddar cheese and you have the breakfast of the Gods.

Christi

OK, I can tell her - everyone down south loves grits, but we haven't heard from many of the up-north contingent yet (still waiting for someone to ask what a grits is).

and from what I can tell a popover is a muffin?

I can't speak for Dave, and never would, but I think his intention
with the new rule is not only to help the site run smoother, but if we are
all in the habit of using correct punctuation (not to sound like I'm slapping
anyone's fingers with a ruler) it should not be an issue.

Ouch, that sounded sharp, but not my intention. :-)

In other words, if the writer's intent is to pause, three will not only work,
but would be proper. With regard to exclamation marks, it isn't as much about
writing as it is communication. One exclamation mark signifies a raised
level of feeling. Two, even three relate a very excited, important, angry,
or otherwise higher level of emotion. Fifteen exclamation marks seem to
signify a national trauma or major emergency. If the same text were
spoken, one would be screaming at the top of their lungs. ;-)

LouC, in my preview I noticed you used multiples, too funny! A slice
of tomato with breakfast, oh yes! When eating sandwiches, add two or
three Romas sliced, add a bit of salt, and I'll even do windows!

Brinda, oh, no cheating on the popovers here. But I do admit to cheating
with canned bisquits for dumplings.

KM

Wuvie, we are not through with each other yet.
I lived in Ruidoso, NM for 11 years with my children in school there. Let me think backwards. I moved there in '80 and left in '91 when the kids finished coming back to Texas to go to college.

In '89 I went down to New Mexico State to take some propagation courses at New Mexico State for a year before returning to Texas, my home state.

I still know a lot of people there. When were you there and where did you work? This is great news!

Dyson, the popover is hollow and sort of chewy (not really) as opposed to a muffin being solid and heavy. Not a very good description but that is about the long and short of it. The popover rises very high and will sort of fold into itself when removed from the heat. Come on, guys, help me out here.

LouC

How neat is this?

Let me see. In 1987, I moved to Roswell, New Mexico. From there,
to Ruidoso, it seems until 1988.

I worked at the Four Seasons Inn on the highway for a short time, wish
I could remember the name of the lady who cared for my son while I
worked.

Hmm. Names. My brother in law; Chuck, worked for Radio Shack for a bit,
my sister in law; Tracy, was a nurse at the hospital, hubby's best friend; Mark,
operated a painting business. We used to eat at the local fish place that was famous
for it's fried bisquits, we've always called them dibbie-doughs, but unsure
what the restaurant called them.

Hubby's aunt was a school teacher, Audrey West, widow of John West.
They have one son, Mark.

Any of this ring a bell? :-) How cool!

LouC, indeed you described it quite well!

An eggy, bisquity / doughy / puffy / wanna-be-breakfast food?

LOL

I use periods to line up columns. For instance if I am placing an order in a co-op, I like to have the columns for the number of plants, price per plant, total purchase amount for that plant, etc. lined up in columns. Then I do a total for each column. That way my order is in an easily read format for the co-op organizer as well as myself. I would like to keep that option for formatting since there doesn't seem to be any other way to do that.

I also like to pause a lot .... .... ....

Water try excell?

I think you'll still be able to do that if you intersperse the periods with spaces... This just cuts down on the casual use of 27 periods where 3 would do the trick. .. . . . .

:-)

Sidney,

Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm certainly not
trying to pick on you, or anyone, at all. I'm not sure how
to ask this without sounding harsh, not my intent.

When you have a pause, if the new site change affects
the post due to changing the length of one's ellipsis, why not
just stop typing until you gather your thoughts, then proceed,
instead of taking the time to type all those dots?

Honestly, I'm just asking. Don't throw stale popovers, please? LOL

Dave did this for technical reasons and finding ways to defeat it just screws up his program more.

I agree with you, Wuvie. It also probably has something to do with server space and download times. Everything that is posted on a web site takes up bandwidth which the web host (DG) pays for, and we in turn help pay for in the form of subscriber fees. Think of bandwidth like rooms in your house. If you keep filling them with unnecessary clutter, you either have to clean out the rooms or spend money to buy a bigger house. Excessive punctuation is like "web clutter".

Not that anyone in DG ever has clutter in their house! LOL

June

June, love the house analogy. My day is being spent removing
clutter.

Unbeknownst to me, the little orange light on the Hoover doesn't
mean the floor unit is working, it signifies a clog. Here I've been
zipping along, happy as can be the light is on, yet the vac was
screaming for service.

So that's how it is I start this great thread to get kicked to the curb, no sympathy for slowing down, nothing!1! LOL
I actually have cut my post by about 40%.
;)

Aw, Sugar, no, not at all that way. You know we love you,
excessive dots and all. ;-)

In humor, I was just thinking about June's reference to
clutter in the house.

If we compare the extended ellipsis to driving, it would be
a hoot. Imagine driving around in circles in the parking lot
while you gather your thoughts, instead of parking. LOL
The store owner would prefer you pull over before proceeding.

Ha ha!

thank you june and wuvie. this thread finally makes sense to me. i was a straight a student in high school and college with nursing as my major, even tutored math and chemistry. . . . . . . . . . but i am a computer illiterate. gotta go. . . too much space.